I've got an HTC One (that's a fine phone), but controls are f'in awful for some games. I can appreciate what many devs are trying to do, but some games simply need physical controls.
I'm very nearly going to buy a MOGA for those, but then that's just some handheld controls applied to a few games.
I *love* the idea of being able to stream my games from my PC to a handheld within my house, and decent controls chucked in, but... well it's really f'in obvious what the issue is. Most of the tech in the shield is already approximated in my phone and if I chucked on a MOGA than as far as I can see "I've bought a Shield" hardware-wise. Just seems wasteful to buy the hardware all over again.
What nVidia should be doing is adding the remote streaming in as a Tegra4 function. If the HTCTwo, or Galaxy5 gave me the streaming ability, and I just had to pick up a MOGA, then I'd be happy as a pig in shit (and it would certainly influence my choice of my *next* phone).
Destroy them?
Sell them on?
I'm kindoff interested to see how this plays - are they treated as an illegal item with a 'street value', or will the illegal currency be sold on the open market and get some bonus legitimacy ("as retailed by the US government")?
I mean if they don't sell them, whilst there are willing buyers out there wishing to purchase a legal 'good', they're burning your taxes (and boosting the value of whatever's left floating around).
Use them for "their own purposes" (like seizing a Ferrari and using it in a sting) - they're then exposing themselves to some tracking ($5 to the first, track the FBIs bitcoin site).
Personally I've got no idea - but somebody's just cracked open the "big barrel of questions"
If "God created everything in a week" was accurate and provable, then it would be knowledge. Fine, heaven might have an entrance quiz, but regurgitating facts isn't an exhibition of faith.
If there's nothing to test the view that you hold, it's simply not faith.
There should be more evolution taught to enhance the levels of faith that Christians can hold. Surely learning about evolution, picking up a PhD, topping it with a Nobel prize for presenting categoric evidence for evolution, chucking in the missing link, and proving Monkeys evolved from humans - and then turning around to say you never actually believed any of it. Surely that's got to get you high "faith marks".
I'm currently queuing for a BF game as I type and it gives me a nice list of server pings - and they start at around 10. If I looked tomorrow and the lowest I could see was 30ms then I'd think something was up.
Now playing a game I couldn't swear I'd notice the additional 20ms, but I'd notice if a delay suddenly appeared between me and all the servers.
I could still always go and chew the bark off a willow tree when my head hurts, but I prefer to give big pharma their dollar to get my hands on those more convenient aspirin tablets.
Is excellent for scripting actions (although you need to root really).
e.g. in this case you could define geographic areas (your home, your office etc) where WiFi is turned on, and get it to turn off in all other areas.
The first batch of internet-made billionaires seem to be a reasonable nice bunch (by which I can only mean agree with my ideals).
They made more money than they knew what to do with, and quite a few of them have decided to take that wad and make a mark on the world with it.
I have no f'in idea if Elon will die on Mars, if Bill will eradicate Malaria, or if Jeff can generate unique editorial content to shape his country - but there's a little part of me that's just screaming 'yes'. He's not done it to make money, he's done it because he wants to - god knows, but I want to see what happens when journalists have a platform, the prestige and a backer with large piles of fuck-you-world money.
I just have a feeling that this is a bigger deal than Murdoch buying MySpace for twice the money.
Speaking for I assume most of us, it's "a fair amount of cash" - but not life changing. You'll weigh up the pros and cons, yadda yadda
*If* you want to bribe somebody you need to go straight in with "shock and awe". No negotiations.
I guess the bit they missed was realizing that the ipad was just a games machine - did other stuff as well.
I'm never one to praise Sony, but with the VIta they at least pitched it right - we make games consoles. We've made the best portable games console we could. If you want a portable games console, please buy it.
I frankly fail to see if Nintendo think that the future is a touch screen, why they didn't just go software only. Square seem to have leapt into the tablet market with both feet, and just ignored the rest of the market and priced at the level they feel their games are worth.
Now I still feel that I'm missing out playing games on my phone, compared to a console, but with controller APIs just around the corner and the ability to shove something onto a bigger screen if you feel like it - I really can't see myself buying another console.
I started off fine in maths, but stuggled towards the end of higher education.
Main reason is the gift of decent intelligence, eventually swamped by crippling laziness, but I digress.
Contributory factor was also that I was, and still am, piss-poor at visualizing concepts easily. Should my maths (or my physics) have had a practical outlet, then maybe they'd have stuck with me better. An example would be when I got to use one of those programmable turtle thingies. Yay, we can draw a line, then a box, then a square and well obviously it's time to draw a circle... and well that's how you learn about pi.
The market will ultimately guide the publishers to the correct decision (which is what ultimately ends up making them more money) - it just might take some time, undoubtedly destroy some publishers and make some DRM shills rich - but we'll get there in the end.
Personally, I've got no issue at all with DRM per-se, but that's when the benefits to me outweigh the impact. I'm a happy subscriber to Spotify and Netflix, and I'm reasonably sure those services would never have happened if it was just a library of mp3 or mkv files.
is that airline ninjas just sneak into your bedroom and anaesthetize you as you sleep. I can then be loaded into a person sized shipping container and be unpacked at the other end - I was always fascinated by those gigantic UPS sorting offices and hate every single f'in aspect of flying.
Without a decent proportion of "smart, talented, dedicated individuals" you're most likely going to fail whatever methodology you use.
Problem seems to be there's a large industry (and certified professionals embedded in middle-management) who have vested interests in pitching approaches, not solutions - and however good a programmer you are, you're not going to make the 'big-bucks' without at least flirting with management. This is a good thing, but tends to make people tie their colours to a particular mast.
IMHO most methodologies are good - some have particular strengths for particular tasks/organizations - but basically they're just common sense (formalized in a way that you can slap on a power-point and justify to the clueless guy with the money).
A theoretical worker works for a company that switched from water-fall to Theory of Constraints. He was naturally dubious, but after his intro decided that he quite liked the idea (he's certainly been guilty of coasting on a task that was coming along nicely and was going to finish by the planned end date).
Then the bad stuff happened - "We automatically lop 25% of the estimate as this is more efficient".. I can see some savings, but howabout we're more realistic and just see if this stops stuff over-running. Then we start planning (tasks, estimates, buffers, dependencies etc) and start piecing it together. End of the first day we've formalized that this project cannot be delivered ontime using TOC. So well somebody decides some dependencies can be removed. Oh, and then somebody else starts adding 'programmer tbc 1' to the plan etc.
Basically, projects fail for all manner of reasons and this is often associated to the methodology. Reality is that it's the same old humans pushing the same problems into the systems, which then just fail with slightly different nomenclature.
But that's just to play the latest versions of Mario, Zelda etc.
Problem is I'm reluctantly to continually buy the consoles for those ~5 games a generation (makes those games damn-expensive).
The games are clearly being used to make me buy the hardware, and finally I think I've had enough.
I still remember Twilight Princess being 'shoved' into the Wii (and then appearing on the GC anyway). Life would be much easier if they just did a Sega.
I'm definitely back with my PC after a brief flirtation with my 360. Whole multitude of reasons:
PC is 'better' - long current console generation means even a modestly priced PC can spank any console.
Steam - Only service that actually delivered on it's promise of a 'digital-dividend'. Getting hold of a new game easy and usually cheap. Steam sales are a frenzy of gluttony for anything I've ever vaguely been interested in. Consoles whilst able, have been gutted by desire to keep publishers happy (I don't think it's possibly to download anything on my Vita that isn't £10 more expensive than buying the physical game from Amazon). Unlike many people (or at least vocal people), I'm fine with the killing of the 2nd hand game market - I just want to get something back in return.
Back to the subject, I think the WiiU is dead in the water - the people who Ninty brought into gaming with the Wii are now feasting on their ipad games. Whilst back-porting a touch-screen to a console will probably be 'compatible' with these users, I fail to see how this is going to get them to bin the ipad that they own.
PS4 - I dunno, just seems more of the same with a few bolted on software features - "share to youtube!"... oh ffs. Play a game as it downloads! (I can do this anyway, and I suspect I'm not going to be buying any digital games from you, see above).
Xbox One I think has a chance - and for some of the features it's being bashed for. I feel the TV component is going to be the seller for a couple of reasons. Most of us have a laptop/tablet/phone to hand as we watch, and I refuse to believe anybody out there hasn't scrabbled to see "what else was that guy in?". Additionally, rather than being a host for video clients, this Xbox seems to have it baked in deeper. I can easily see when you upgrade your cable subscription, you'll be offered a basic box, a Tivo or a XBOne. As happens in the mobile market, there'll be the contract and the physical client (which 'only costs a few dollars a month') - ffs they could even chuck a discounted family gold account in, along with your movie package.
Oh - and something that's been touched in is the fact what you see is a VM running - one for the game, and one for your TV. With my thinking hat on, this is ideally designed to allow what I mentioned above. The 'Game' VM is identical for all users and upgraded by MS - the 'Media' side can be customized for your cable operator.
Just realized I've wandered completely off-topic - but I guess it's mainly when I look (or even think about) the Wii-U, I'm not sure where it fits in - WHO is the target market?
9/11 gave you a bloody-nose, and the TSA is what you take away as your 'problem'
You (we) went into Iraq - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/18/panorama-iraq-fresh-wmd-claims
I'm not even aware of any allegations on Afghan involvement - but hey, see what we did there - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21547542
And even before all of that kicked off, the US had managed to bugger up most of South/Central America - and defended funding of organizations like NORAID.
Still, having to show papers to get on a plane, and not being allowed to fap with your gun must have been really hard for you.
"Remember that in a police state, policies are implemented to make things easier on police"
I assume these infringements include ridiculous infringements like the power to arrest people and... well pretty much any power any police agent or government has over that of a common citizen.
Now personally I have all manner of issues with powers granted by states, to states, and their enforcers - but I accept that in the main part they're trying to protect us, and have some perspective.
More interesting question is around import duty. I think I read (possibly when last trying to work out where the f*ck my OpenPandora was) that there's different import duties on finished electrical good and components (these being more expensive). Even assuming assembly cost is the same, it means it always costs more to assemble in the UK.
It's not the flying part - it's the hitting the ground you should be scared of.
I never used to have a problem with flying, and I'm still 'fine' with it - but I still remember with f'in terror a take-off I had from LHR.
Go down the runway, nose up, we're going up - and then we drop like a stone for a few seconds on what I assume was an air-pocket. Seeing things on the ground getting significantly bigger whilst the nose is still pointing up is *not* a good feeling.
Now the majority of my brain is reasonably comfortable with the idea there was never really a danger, but my lizard cortex takes a couple of G&Ts to completely silence now.
It's just something a bit different.
An option we'll all shortly have, we didn't have before.
Of course it's not going to be wanted by 99% of us - but surely you can find it in your heart to be glad that somebody out there is at least trying to innovate.
Razer, who were previously just an accessory maker of random gaming bits actually seem to be trying to push the boundary and putting some investment into creating interesting products - and then actually bringing them to market.
Full Disclosure: I own one of their mouse-mats - and it's the finest mouse mat I've ever seen/used.
my original post wasn't meant to be a troll, just exasperation.
I've been playing games on PCs for way too long - and it used to be a pretty miserable experience. Having to use Qemm, buying old graphics cards on ebay so I could mount an extra 1/2 meg of RAM chips on my Ultrasound to load the full MT32 samples, trying to patch Tomb Raider so it run with my m3D and then finding the copy of the game I'd bought seemed to be a different build etc. All the time consoles were just sitting there with games you plugged in and "they just worked".
Since DirectX and the other MS APIs they introduced, drivers were made for these, games were made for the drivers and finally the PC seemed to be a platform you could actually recommend as a gaming platform to somebody who didn't want to fiddle with IRQs etc.
Now I'm fascinated with what Valve is currently doing - I love steam and I'm reasonably sure I'm never going to buy another console again. If Valve can supply a Linux build with certification for hardware beneath and games that run over the top, I'm more than willing to give it a go - but all of this push just seems to be to make something 'as good' as what we currently have on Windows. Aside from the cost of the Windows OS, I'm not really sure what massive advantage I get (more efficient driver is a good start though), but I can be reasonably sure there will be disadvantages which many people seem to be hell-bent on glossing over.
If Gaming under Linux is so great, why are we all still using windows?
Yes, I'm sure Linux is better than it was and I'm sure there are many fine reasons why you prefer Linux over Windows - but to put this as bluntly as I can "Anybody who suggests that linux is a better gaming OS than Windows is a dribbling retard".
See also OSX - a fine OS, but just not what you should be installing if you want to play games.
This is one of the topics that repeatedly comes up and just starts me grinding my teeth. You may not think it's right, you may not think it's fair, but it is a fact so overwhelming that any protestation makes you come across as a dogmatic fool
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I've got an HTC One (that's a fine phone), but controls are f'in awful for some games. I can appreciate what many devs are trying to do, but some games simply need physical controls.
I'm very nearly going to buy a MOGA for those, but then that's just some handheld controls applied to a few games.
I *love* the idea of being able to stream my games from my PC to a handheld within my house, and decent controls chucked in, but... well it's really f'in obvious what the issue is. Most of the tech in the shield is already approximated in my phone and if I chucked on a MOGA than as far as I can see "I've bought a Shield" hardware-wise. Just seems wasteful to buy the hardware all over again.
What nVidia should be doing is adding the remote streaming in as a Tegra4 function. If the HTCTwo, or Galaxy5 gave me the streaming ability, and I just had to pick up a MOGA, then I'd be happy as a pig in shit (and it would certainly influence my choice of my *next* phone).
Destroy them?
Sell them on?
I'm kindoff interested to see how this plays - are they treated as an illegal item with a 'street value', or will the illegal currency be sold on the open market and get some bonus legitimacy ("as retailed by the US government")?
I mean if they don't sell them, whilst there are willing buyers out there wishing to purchase a legal 'good', they're burning your taxes (and boosting the value of whatever's left floating around).
Use them for "their own purposes" (like seizing a Ferrari and using it in a sting) - they're then exposing themselves to some tracking ($5 to the first, track the FBIs bitcoin site).
Personally I've got no idea - but somebody's just cracked open the "big barrel of questions"
If "God created everything in a week" was accurate and provable, then it would be knowledge. Fine, heaven might have an entrance quiz, but regurgitating facts isn't an exhibition of faith.
If there's nothing to test the view that you hold, it's simply not faith.
There should be more evolution taught to enhance the levels of faith that Christians can hold. Surely learning about evolution, picking up a PhD, topping it with a Nobel prize for presenting categoric evidence for evolution, chucking in the missing link, and proving Monkeys evolved from humans - and then turning around to say you never actually believed any of it. Surely that's got to get you high "faith marks".
As a Tsunami hit them - let's ban "Acts of God" and all make a saving on our insurance.
*shakes fist at the sky*
I'm currently queuing for a BF game as I type and it gives me a nice list of server pings - and they start at around 10. If I looked tomorrow and the lowest I could see was 30ms then I'd think something was up.
Now playing a game I couldn't swear I'd notice the additional 20ms, but I'd notice if a delay suddenly appeared between me and all the servers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice#Medicine
That's just medicine.
I could still always go and chew the bark off a willow tree when my head hurts, but I prefer to give big pharma their dollar to get my hands on those more convenient aspirin tablets.
Then it wouldn't be alternate, would it?
Is excellent for scripting actions (although you need to root really).
e.g. in this case you could define geographic areas (your home, your office etc) where WiFi is turned on, and get it to turn off in all other areas.
The first batch of internet-made billionaires seem to be a reasonable nice bunch (by which I can only mean agree with my ideals).
They made more money than they knew what to do with, and quite a few of them have decided to take that wad and make a mark on the world with it.
I have no f'in idea if Elon will die on Mars, if Bill will eradicate Malaria, or if Jeff can generate unique editorial content to shape his country - but there's a little part of me that's just screaming 'yes'. He's not done it to make money, he's done it because he wants to - god knows, but I want to see what happens when journalists have a platform, the prestige and a backer with large piles of fuck-you-world money.
I just have a feeling that this is a bigger deal than Murdoch buying MySpace for twice the money.
Speaking for I assume most of us, it's "a fair amount of cash" - but not life changing. You'll weigh up the pros and cons, yadda yadda
*If* you want to bribe somebody you need to go straight in with "shock and awe". No negotiations.
I guess the bit they missed was realizing that the ipad was just a games machine - did other stuff as well.
I'm never one to praise Sony, but with the VIta they at least pitched it right - we make games consoles. We've made the best portable games console we could. If you want a portable games console, please buy it.
I frankly fail to see if Nintendo think that the future is a touch screen, why they didn't just go software only. Square seem to have leapt into the tablet market with both feet, and just ignored the rest of the market and priced at the level they feel their games are worth.
Now I still feel that I'm missing out playing games on my phone, compared to a console, but with controller APIs just around the corner and the ability to shove something onto a bigger screen if you feel like it - I really can't see myself buying another console.
I started off fine in maths, but stuggled towards the end of higher education.
Main reason is the gift of decent intelligence, eventually swamped by crippling laziness, but I digress.
Contributory factor was also that I was, and still am, piss-poor at visualizing concepts easily. Should my maths (or my physics) have had a practical outlet, then maybe they'd have stuck with me better. An example would be when I got to use one of those programmable turtle thingies. Yay, we can draw a line, then a box, then a square and well obviously it's time to draw a circle... and well that's how you learn about pi.
The market will ultimately guide the publishers to the correct decision (which is what ultimately ends up making them more money) - it just might take some time, undoubtedly destroy some publishers and make some DRM shills rich - but we'll get there in the end.
Personally, I've got no issue at all with DRM per-se, but that's when the benefits to me outweigh the impact. I'm a happy subscriber to Spotify and Netflix, and I'm reasonably sure those services would never have happened if it was just a library of mp3 or mkv files.
is that airline ninjas just sneak into your bedroom and anaesthetize you as you sleep. I can then be loaded into a person sized shipping container and be unpacked at the other end - I was always fascinated by those gigantic UPS sorting offices and hate every single f'in aspect of flying.
Without a decent proportion of "smart, talented, dedicated individuals" you're most likely going to fail whatever methodology you use.
Problem seems to be there's a large industry (and certified professionals embedded in middle-management) who have vested interests in pitching approaches, not solutions - and however good a programmer you are, you're not going to make the 'big-bucks' without at least flirting with management. This is a good thing, but tends to make people tie their colours to a particular mast.
IMHO most methodologies are good - some have particular strengths for particular tasks/organizations - but basically they're just common sense (formalized in a way that you can slap on a power-point and justify to the clueless guy with the money).
A theoretical worker works for a company that switched from water-fall to Theory of Constraints. He was naturally dubious, but after his intro decided that he quite liked the idea (he's certainly been guilty of coasting on a task that was coming along nicely and was going to finish by the planned end date).
Then the bad stuff happened - "We automatically lop 25% of the estimate as this is more efficient".. I can see some savings, but howabout we're more realistic and just see if this stops stuff over-running. Then we start planning (tasks, estimates, buffers, dependencies etc) and start piecing it together. End of the first day we've formalized that this project cannot be delivered ontime using TOC. So well somebody decides some dependencies can be removed. Oh, and then somebody else starts adding 'programmer tbc 1' to the plan etc.
Basically, projects fail for all manner of reasons and this is often associated to the methodology. Reality is that it's the same old humans pushing the same problems into the systems, which then just fail with slightly different nomenclature.
But that's just to play the latest versions of Mario, Zelda etc.
Problem is I'm reluctantly to continually buy the consoles for those ~5 games a generation (makes those games damn-expensive).
The games are clearly being used to make me buy the hardware, and finally I think I've had enough.
I still remember Twilight Princess being 'shoved' into the Wii (and then appearing on the GC anyway). Life would be much easier if they just did a Sega.
I'm definitely back with my PC after a brief flirtation with my 360. Whole multitude of reasons:
PC is 'better' - long current console generation means even a modestly priced PC can spank any console.
Steam - Only service that actually delivered on it's promise of a 'digital-dividend'. Getting hold of a new game easy and usually cheap. Steam sales are a frenzy of gluttony for anything I've ever vaguely been interested in. Consoles whilst able, have been gutted by desire to keep publishers happy (I don't think it's possibly to download anything on my Vita that isn't £10 more expensive than buying the physical game from Amazon). Unlike many people (or at least vocal people), I'm fine with the killing of the 2nd hand game market - I just want to get something back in return.
Back to the subject, I think the WiiU is dead in the water - the people who Ninty brought into gaming with the Wii are now feasting on their ipad games. Whilst back-porting a touch-screen to a console will probably be 'compatible' with these users, I fail to see how this is going to get them to bin the ipad that they own.
PS4 - I dunno, just seems more of the same with a few bolted on software features - "share to youtube!"... oh ffs. Play a game as it downloads! (I can do this anyway, and I suspect I'm not going to be buying any digital games from you, see above).
Xbox One I think has a chance - and for some of the features it's being bashed for. I feel the TV component is going to be the seller for a couple of reasons. Most of us have a laptop/tablet/phone to hand as we watch, and I refuse to believe anybody out there hasn't scrabbled to see "what else was that guy in?". Additionally, rather than being a host for video clients, this Xbox seems to have it baked in deeper. I can easily see when you upgrade your cable subscription, you'll be offered a basic box, a Tivo or a XBOne. As happens in the mobile market, there'll be the contract and the physical client (which 'only costs a few dollars a month') - ffs they could even chuck a discounted family gold account in, along with your movie package.
Oh - and something that's been touched in is the fact what you see is a VM running - one for the game, and one for your TV. With my thinking hat on, this is ideally designed to allow what I mentioned above. The 'Game' VM is identical for all users and upgraded by MS - the 'Media' side can be customized for your cable operator.
Just realized I've wandered completely off-topic - but I guess it's mainly when I look (or even think about) the Wii-U, I'm not sure where it fits in - WHO is the target market?
9/11 gave you a bloody-nose, and the TSA is what you take away as your 'problem' You (we) went into Iraq - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/18/panorama-iraq-fresh-wmd-claims I'm not even aware of any allegations on Afghan involvement - but hey, see what we did there - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21547542 And even before all of that kicked off, the US had managed to bugger up most of South/Central America - and defended funding of organizations like NORAID. Still, having to show papers to get on a plane, and not being allowed to fap with your gun must have been really hard for you.
"Remember that in a police state, policies are implemented to make things easier on police"
I assume these infringements include ridiculous infringements like the power to arrest people and... well pretty much any power any police agent or government has over that of a common citizen.
Now personally I have all manner of issues with powers granted by states, to states, and their enforcers - but I accept that in the main part they're trying to protect us, and have some perspective.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2569
More interesting question is around import duty. I think I read (possibly when last trying to work out where the f*ck my OpenPandora was) that there's different import duties on finished electrical good and components (these being more expensive). Even assuming assembly cost is the same, it means it always costs more to assemble in the UK.
It's not the flying part - it's the hitting the ground you should be scared of.
I never used to have a problem with flying, and I'm still 'fine' with it - but I still remember with f'in terror a take-off I had from LHR.
Go down the runway, nose up, we're going up - and then we drop like a stone for a few seconds on what I assume was an air-pocket. Seeing things on the ground getting significantly bigger whilst the nose is still pointing up is *not* a good feeling.
Now the majority of my brain is reasonably comfortable with the idea there was never really a danger, but my lizard cortex takes a couple of G&Ts to completely silence now.
It's just something a bit different.
An option we'll all shortly have, we didn't have before.
Of course it's not going to be wanted by 99% of us - but surely you can find it in your heart to be glad that somebody out there is at least trying to innovate.
Razer, who were previously just an accessory maker of random gaming bits actually seem to be trying to push the boundary and putting some investment into creating interesting products - and then actually bringing them to market.
Full Disclosure: I own one of their mouse-mats - and it's the finest mouse mat I've ever seen/used.
my original post wasn't meant to be a troll, just exasperation.
I've been playing games on PCs for way too long - and it used to be a pretty miserable experience. Having to use Qemm, buying old graphics cards on ebay so I could mount an extra 1/2 meg of RAM chips on my Ultrasound to load the full MT32 samples, trying to patch Tomb Raider so it run with my m3D and then finding the copy of the game I'd bought seemed to be a different build etc. All the time consoles were just sitting there with games you plugged in and "they just worked".
Since DirectX and the other MS APIs they introduced, drivers were made for these, games were made for the drivers and finally the PC seemed to be a platform you could actually recommend as a gaming platform to somebody who didn't want to fiddle with IRQs etc.
Now I'm fascinated with what Valve is currently doing - I love steam and I'm reasonably sure I'm never going to buy another console again. If Valve can supply a Linux build with certification for hardware beneath and games that run over the top, I'm more than willing to give it a go - but all of this push just seems to be to make something 'as good' as what we currently have on Windows. Aside from the cost of the Windows OS, I'm not really sure what massive advantage I get (more efficient driver is a good start though), but I can be reasonably sure there will be disadvantages which many people seem to be hell-bent on glossing over.
If Gaming under Linux is so great, why are we all still using windows?
Yes, I'm sure Linux is better than it was and I'm sure there are many fine reasons why you prefer Linux over Windows - but to put this as bluntly as I can "Anybody who suggests that linux is a better gaming OS than Windows is a dribbling retard".
See also OSX - a fine OS, but just not what you should be installing if you want to play games.
This is one of the topics that repeatedly comes up and just starts me grinding my teeth. You may not think it's right, you may not think it's fair, but it is a fact so overwhelming that any protestation makes you come across as a dogmatic fool